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Erik Andersen
BESSER VERTIKAL 03, 2021
Epoxy resin
H76 × W96 × D15cm
Besser Vertikal takes the form of an over-sized stack of paper with permanently curling edges — investigates materiality and process, emptiness and possibility. Rendered emphatically material through opaque black epoxy...
Besser Vertikal takes the form of an over-sized stack of paper with permanently curling edges — investigates materiality and process, emptiness and possibility. Rendered emphatically material through opaque black epoxy resin and made weighty in its scale. It is concerned with the status and position of physical media and processes in the present. At the same time, it questions the possibilities a seemingly blank sheet of paper may open up — the prospects and limitations such a medium might hold in our digital, pandemic age. Here, Andersen draws not only on the particularity of our current reality, but also the very process of making: art, decisions, rules. We, too, are enlisted as participants in the unfolding of this process: faced with limitless paths and no prescribed destination, with the prospect of infinity or else oblivion, as we navigate the uncertainty of the encounter that has been set before us.
Besser Vertikal 系列以类似于一叠边缘永久卷曲的超大尺寸纸张的形式，探究了材质和过程，以及无内容的”纸面“和其蕴含的可能性。Besser Vertikal 02通过不透明的黑色环氧树脂来强调材料，并在作品原有的规模上增添了重量感。这件作品关注的是物理介质和工序在当下的状况。同时，也质疑了一张看似空白的纸能产生的可能性——在数字化的大流行时代背景下，这样一种媒介可能拥怎样的前景？会有怎样的局限性？这里，安德森不仅借鉴了我们当前所处现实的特殊性，还还借鉴了制作的特别过程：艺术、决策、规则。我们也被征召为这一过程的参与者：当我们在眼前不确定的遭遇中穿行，面对着无尽的路径和无指定的终点，我们或将拥有无限的前景，抑或被湮没。